[Gllug] UDMA drives, promise controller card and the BIOS

[Jonathan Dye]

At 16:26 11/10/01 +0100, you wrote:
>> Not sure if it helps but I had a hard drive that had three jumper
>settings,
>> Slave, Master with slave and Master without slave.  If it was in
>Master
>> with slave mode it wouldn't work without a slave on the cable.
>

Sorry, I meant four settings, I forgot Cable Select!


>I've had similar problems, I think some cables provide the master/slave
>selection (depends which drive is plugged in to which plug/socket on the
>cable) others require the hdd to have correct jumper settings to select
>these.  So there is about 4 or more combinations that are available
>depending on cable and it needs to be connected right for it to work.
>Don't remember how you can tell which type of cable etc you have sorry
>has been a while since I played with them, I normally just swap them
>round 'til it boots.
>
>Steve.
>
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